We don’t know that you were born on April 23, 1564, just that you were baptized a few days later. And there’s no evidence that you ever spelled your name “Shakespeare” when you signed it. But never mind. You gave us lines like these:<\/p>\n
How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
\nHere will we sit and let the sounds of music
\nCreep in our ears: soft stillness and the night
\nBecome the touches of sweet harmony.
\nSit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven
\nIs thick inlaid with patines of bright gold:
\nThere’s not the smallest orb which thou behold’st
\nBut in his motion like an angel sings,
\nStill quiring to the young-eyed cherubins;
\nSuch harmony is in immortal souls;
\nBut whilst this muddy vesture of decay
\nDoth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We don’t know that you were born on April 23, 1564, just that you were baptized a few days later. And there’s no evidence that you ever spelled your name “Shakespeare” when you signed it. But never mind. You gave us lines like these: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we … Continue reading “Happy Presumed Birthday, Will Shakespeare!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,4,7,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birthdays","category-random-craziness","category-the-universe","category-things-we-like"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13153,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13150\/revisions\/13153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musefanpage.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}